8. Student Mobile Survey What should we support? Percentage of smartphones, breakdown by make …
9. Student Mobile Survey Do students use them to access the internet? Mobile contract limitations …
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Students are extremely keen to be able to use mobile phones more to support their studies. This was a clear message at this year's eLearning@ed conference, as well as through various other channels. Student Experience £40K is funding this for students - that has to remain this pilot's focus. The pilot will initially focus on student needs and will be grown in a modular manner, to provide a balanced service which meets wider requirements over time.
One of the aims of this project is to capture requirements for a Mobile Campus at Edinburgh, including data showing smartphone devices which students own, and the priority of services they expect to receive through a mobile campus. As a first step of this project, we distributed a 'Mobile Services 2010' survey to students in March, asking about the type of handset they hold, what they use them for, and which potential University services they would most like to see available. We were very pleased with the volume of responses received; 1,989, again implying a high level of interest among students for mobile services.